Wow, People Totally Have a Handle ...

Oh, forget it:

On Jan. 3, China’s National Health Commission issued a document to all regional health commissions and top-level biosafety labs in the country “that may deal with pathogenic microorganisms that are infectious among people.” The document was marked “not to be disclosed.”

It set out guidelines to strengthen the management of biological samples and research activities with regard to “the prevention and control of a major sudden outbreak of infectious diseases.” However, the document did not specify the disease.

The document was issued just days after Wuhan authorities publicly confirmed the CCP virus outbreak on Dec. 31.

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Quebec has recorded its first COVID-19 outbreak at a daycare, says the director of public health for the Lanaudière region.

The daycare centre — an emergency childcare service for essential workers in Mascouche — was closed on Monday, Dr. Richard Lessard said in a virtual news conference on Wednesday.

Mascouche is 50 kilometres northwest of Montreal.

Twelve out of 27 children contracted COVID-19, as did four employees, Lessard said. No one was hospitalized.

Guys, guys! You both screwed up. Let's not put you in a position where you can do that again:

Ontario is promising a review of the province’s long-term care system after the COVID-19 pandemic, but won’t commit to making it public or independent from government.

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Today, 2,114 of the 2,631 Quebeckers who died of COVID-19 lived in an elder-care facility. That’s nearly twice as many as in Ontario, where 1,111 long-term care residents died. In addition, Quebec’s health care system is missing 11,600 workers, who are either sick, quarantined or unwilling to show up.

I remember people being absolutely thrilled that Justin could skip off to Harrington Lake:

Sources with knowledge of the trip said Ford had to “check on the plumbing” at his summer residence, which is currently under renovation.

I guess it pays that your dad was a prime minister.




We already had backlogs:

As hospitals in large swaths of Canada gear up to provide elective operations again, at least one province is predicting it could be as long as two years before the backlog caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic is cleared.

British Columbia says it will cost $250-million this year and take 17 to 24 months to complete the 30,000 procedures that were postponed to make way for a wave of COVID-19 patients that so far has not swamped the province’s hospitals.

Stop being rude, Frankie:

When China donated medical supplies to help Canada in battling the coronavirus pandemic, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne turned to Twitter to thank the country directly.

But after the small island nation of Taiwan did the same, Champagne did not post about the donation on his Twitter account and when pressed to thank the nation directly on Thursday, would not say its name.

China can run interference or it can Epstein Aylward. There are too many questions being asked as it is:

An English-language propaganda outlet operated by the Communist Party of China has run to the defence of Canadian WHO official Bruce Aylward after he ignored repeated requests to appear before the health committee.

The article titled “Canada should end travesty of ‘WHO-bashing’ campaign” was published by Global Times, which is owned and operated by the official state newspaper of the CCP the People’s Daily. 

The outlet cites one expert who accuses Canada of having a “giant baby” mentality and that the coronavirus had crushed Canada’s “sense of superiority.” 

Well, yeah, but that doesn't mean that Canada is anti-China. I mean - it knows that China is its boss.




New Brunswick seems to be doing okay:

New Brunswick announced on Thursday that it has found no new cases of the coronavirus.

The announcement is good news from New Brunswick’s provincial government after back-to-back days of finding a single new case.

Oh, dear:

Patricia Crump fought until the end.

The 86-year-old long-term care resident featured in a heartbreaking image captured by veteran photographer Veronica Henri and presented on the front page of the Toronto Sun late last month died Wednesday night with a nurse holding her hand and her family at her window, according to a family statement sent to CP24.

According to her family, the mother of six tested positive for COVID-19 a week ago this past Sunday while she resided at Orchard Villa Long-Term Care Home in Pickering.